I had a chance to check out the eastern part of the count Hey birders, I had a chance to check out the eastern part of the county for waterfowl and early arrivals. There are a couple of locations worth checking out:
Wita Lake--lots of divers (scaup/Ring-necked primarily) Gilfillin Lake--more of a big soggy mudflat with early yellowlegs and hundreds of mud-loving ducks (shovelers/Green-winged Teal) Born/Alice/Indian Lakes are south of Hwy 14 near Smith's Mill and had tons of ducks. I finally found the big group of Canvasbacks that goes through in spring; I may have seen 500 or more today on Alice and Indian combined. Perch Lake has water again but not much. It is loaded up with dabblers in the middle and there's shorebird habitat (Lesser Yellowlegs) around the edges. Happy birding! Chad Heins Mankato "But ask the animals and they will teach you, or the birds of the air, and they will tell you; Which of all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this?" --Job 12:7, 9 ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
